No you don't. Federation means you can subscribe and post in a community on one instance with the account from another instance.
shrugal
joined 1 year ago
The author of this blog post just realized that things posted publicly on the internet are indeed public, and that Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V exist.
This is not some special property of the Fediverse, it's how the internet has always worked. If you post something publicly (say on your personal blog) then others can see it, make copies and redistribute them, even if you later decide to delete the original content. Companies like Google build massive indexes of everything posted by anyone ever, and there is nothing you can do about it if you want your content to be publicly accessible. If you share something with just a group of people, and someone decides to make it public, then it's public. Nothing new about that.
The GDPR works in exactly the same way in the Fediverse as with the existing services right now. If you want something deleted you have to send a notice to every service that has your content. In reality you'll just send it to the X biggest services, because they represent 99% of the users that could potentially see that content, and that's usually enough. You can do the same with the X most popular Fediverse instances. Even better, we might be able to create a standardized and automated process for it, because they all run the same set of Fediverse apps using ActivityPub after all.
Afaik DMs work just like unencrypted (so regular!) emails. If you send your company secrets to [email protected] then you're probably screwed, same thing with @[email protected].
Looks great, that's for sharing!
Who just clicks next when installing a new OS? This is not like installing a regular program. Most people I know won't even do it themselves because they are afraid to mess things up.
Imo this is a good solution. You don't send any data if you don't want to, without having to hunt down a setting. At the same time they'll probably get more meaningful results, because people tend to go with the default.
The more the merrier for the Fediverse
In principal yes, but not at any cost!
Keep in mind that the Fediverse is also a distributed governance model, and it can be seriously harmed if one bad actor gets too much leverage. Meta's business model is to control as much of the users and content as possible, which runs counter to the idea of the Fediverse. They want to use it to bootstrap their new app, but they'll try to superseed it as soon as they have enough leverage to do so.
Paranoia is literally the opposite of reasonable (by definition), but I'm not here to tell you how to live your life. If you're fine and happy with how you handle things then by all means, continue what you're doing. I just thought you might be unsure and want some input, because you asked this question.
I personally think wearing seatbelts and wearing masks are different, because seatbelts are much less restrictive and annoying (considering the circumstances), easier to implement in everyday life, and the risk of a serious accident and injury is far greater. But everyone has a different take on what they consider acceptable risks and precautions, and things might be different for you if you're at a higher risk of getting infected and seriously ill for example.
In the Fediverse it's both harder and easier to get rid of believes you don't agree with. You can ban them from your own instance or join one that agrees with you, but not remove them from the network entirely.
Your freedom to choose is the same as everybody else's freedom to choose. If you want to get rid of those believes for good then I'm afraid you'll have to convince people the old fashioned way.
The COVID pandemic is over, it's mostly just a regular disease now. Viruses are a normal part of life that we have to learn to live with, I personally would not want to hide at home or run around with a mask all my life. You could just as well stop crossing streets because you could be hit by a car at any moment.
On the contrary, in a broader sense we also have to think about the acceptance of these measures in society. If there is an emergency then most people understand that and are willing to follow guidelines. But if you declare normal life as a state of emergency then people will get tired and hesitant for the next real emergency.
If you're paranoid about this stuff then maybe try to get help. There are things in life that can potentially harm you and that you can't control, and that's fine. They should not scare you to the point where you can't live your life the way you want to anymore.
My server is a DiskStation, so I use HyperBackup to do an encrypted backup of the important data to their Synology C2 service every night.
The thing is, people might not know that they have to look for the Docker setup. Now if they search for "Lemmy on Synology NAS" they land on this guide, telling them to use Docker.
People in FOSS are still regular people with opinions and biases. The difference is that you can fork the code and remove the restriction yourself, or ask someone else to do it for you.
Imo admins should not allow the lockdown of a community on one instance in favor of the one on another. It's fine if the original mod wants to switch, but then just get someone else to mod the community or close it down until someone decides to claim it again.